Foreign aid and immigration: Two winning issues both candidates are ignoring

If you follow this blog, then you know I don't see a dime's worth of difference on the issues between Barack Romney and Mitt Obama, or whatever their names are.

Whichever one becomes president we're still going to see a liberal foreign and domestic policy pursued by the executive branch.

These two ads show what an alternative might look like.

The top ad is from Rand Paul's PAC and it calls for an end to foreign aid, a topic very popular with Americans of both parties.

(File photos) Barack Romney and Mitt Obama - or vice versa

The ad below also talks about a topic popular with most voters - the insane practice of admitting a million immigrants a year when unemployment is at 8 percent.

Think Romney opposes that?

Think again.

To the degree he has addressed the subject he's dealt only with illegal immigration.

Neither candidate talks about limiting legal immigration.

Just to show how far such a campaign could go, note that the ad below comes from an organization that could be described as more liberal than conservative.

CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) is a group whose primary focus is the effect population growth has on the environment.

That effect has been huge, as you can see by this article in their newsletter. The article compares old-time photos of California with more recent photos showing the massive overdevelopment due largely to immigration.

And by "old time," I don't mean all that long ago. When I first traveled to California to go to college in 1968, Southern California was largely rural. The areas outside Los Angeles and San Diego were filled with farms and forests.

Now it's just one big 'burb stretching from the Mexican border up to Santa Barbara.

California: Big changes in a little time thanks to immigration.

Oh and by the way, back then California was conservative. The governor was a guy named Ronald Reagan.

Now they elect people like Barbara Boxer.

That's due almost entirely to the immigration effect.

Back then Orange County, which is just below L.A., was a hotbed of right-wing sentiment, famously known for spawning the John Birch Society.

Now Orange County is reliably Democratic - as is the rest of the state.

A crafty Republican might employ the environmental angle to reverse that sort of thing.